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(cows), and so it is of the sacrifice: let him, therefore, repeat' it, (as it were) saying, 'Good, excellent l' and, verily, whosoever, knowing this, repeats it, (as it were) saying, 'Good, excellent!' with him those (cows) multiply, and the sacrifice will incline to him.
15. Now, Agni coveted her : "May I pair with her,' he thought. He united with her, and his seed became that milk of hers : hence, while the cow is raw, that milk in her is cooked (warm); for it is Agni's seed; and therefore also, whether it be in a black or in a red (cow), it is ever white, and shining like fire, it being Agni's seed.' Hence it is warm when first milked; for it is Agni's seed.
16. They (the men) said, 'Come, let us offer this up!'-'To whom of us shall they first offer this ?' (said those gods). — 'To me!' said Agni.—'To me!' said that blower (Vậyu).—'To me!' said Sarya. They did not come to an agreement; and not being agreed, they said, 'Let us go to our father Pragâpati; and to whichever of us he says it shall be offered first, to him they shall first offer this.' They went to their father Pragâpati, and said, 'To whom of us shall they offer this first?'
17. He replied, 'To Agni: Agni will forthwith cause his own seed to be reproduced, and so you will be reproduced.' 'Then to thee,' he said to Sürya; “and what of the offered (milk) he then is still possessed of, that shall belong to that blower
1 Pariharet (?'let him avoid it (the term go in the sense of sacrifice), thinking that it is too holy'). Sâyana merely remarks, that both the cow and the sacrifice are here represented as extremely auspicious (utkrishtam punyam). Perhaps we have here a play on the words upanâma, 'a by-name,' and upanâmuka,
inclining to (him).' 'Go' (for go-shtoma) is the designation of one of the days of the Abhiplava at the Gavâmayana.
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